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21st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 



August 23d, 1861, to September 30th, 1864. 



Battles Fought, Men Engaged, and Losses. 



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Nathaniel C. Deane, 1864. 



Battles 



Date 



Total No. Men 



Killed 



Roanoke Island 




February 8, 1862 


700 


Newbern 




March 14, 1862 


675 


Camden 




April 19, 1862 


50J 


Manassas 2d Bull Rnn 




August 29, 30, 1862 


425 


Chantiilv 




September 1, 1862 


400 


Soutb Mountain 




September 14, 1862 


225 


Antietara 




September 17, 1862 


350 


Fredericksbarg 




December 13, 1862 


200 


CaTipaisn East Tennessee 
Battle Blue Springs 


September 22, 1863 

to 

January 10, 1864 


200 


Campbell's Stati 
Siege Knoxville 


an 


— 


Wilderness 




May 6, 1864 


209 


Spottsylvania 




May 10, 12, 18, 1864 


— 


Sandy Grove Road 




May 31, June 1, 1864 


— 


Bether. .cDurcti (Cold 


Harbor) 


June 2, 1864 


— 


Petersburg assault 




June 16, 1864 


— 


" " 




June 17, 1864 


— 


Battle of Mine 




July 30, 1864 


— 


Siege of Petersburg 




June 18 to August 18, 1864 


— 


Weldon R. R. 




August 19, 1864 


— 


Poplar Springs church 




September 30, 1864 


— 



13 

23 

4 



3S 



10 

13 



ounded 


Prisoners 


•44 


, 


3S 


— 


11 


1 


•7 


— 


76 


26 


5 


— 


35 


— 


52 


1 



•11 



3 


7 


5 


32 


3 


3 


13 


•21 


2 


2 


4 


25 


7 


14 


3 


14 


3 


4 


4 


10 



8 

2 

13 

2 
3 



11 



Regiment took into action at the battle of the Wilderness 209 men. This number was gradually recruited and reduced, and 

regiment was consolidated with the 36th Massachusetts after Battle of Poplar Springs Church. 
Star (*) one of the Wounded. 



Our ranks by disease were thinned by duty's strain 
We marched and fought, then marched on again 
And we left behind our wounded and slain. 
The white of our flag was colored red 
With life's deep dye — the blood of our men. 



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ROSTER— Continued. 

Commissioned officers on duty with regiment.. __ 3 

Enlisted men 49 

Present but unable for duty 6 

Wounded officers and men 94 

Absent on leave 1 

Special Service — 

Ambulance, Artillery, and Quartermaster — 

Commissioned officers . 1 

Enlisted mei? - 85 

Total all names on rolls _ 239 

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, October 21st, 1864 

SPECIAL ORDER NO. 358. 

(Extract) 30. Upon the receipt of this Order by the Commanding General of the 9lh Army 
Corps, the 36th Massachusetts Volunteers will be consolidated with seven companies and the companies 
now composing the 21st Massachusetts Battalion will be permanently transferred thereto, to complete the 
regiment, the consolidated force to bear the designation of the 36th Massachusetts Volunteers. 

By Order of the Secretary of War, 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 
t • Assistant Adjutant General. 

RECAPITULATION., 

Commissioned officers 88 

Enlisted men 1137 

Total 1225 

Commissioned officers killed or died on field 11 

Enlisted men 141 

Died of disease and in prisons 163 

Killed by sentinels (our men) 2 

Killed by transportation 3 

Murdered 1 

Drowned 3 

Discharged for d isability 354 

Missing in various engagements and unaccounted 51 

Discharged on account of expiration of service 69 

Discharge of band by order of War Department 1862.. _ 25 

Transferred to regular army 59 

Deserted 39 

Officers and men promoted and transferred to other 

regiments 65 

All names on rolls Sept. 30, 1864, and transferred to 36th 

Massachusetts Regiment 239 

Total. -- 1225 

No longer has our country use for Massachusetts old Number 21st — 

Her ranks have fought and gone, now rest in peace. 
When our country once more to serve Massachusetts may again call her old Number 21st 

New ranks, new men, Massachusetts sons, her best 

es of men the flag of Massachusetts old Number 21st. 

NATHANIEL CARTER DEANE, 
One copy del. to Cat. Div. Co. D. 



APR 12 1911 



